This book traces the development of higher education in Canada, through a detailed description and analysis of what was being taught and of the research opportunities available to professors in the years from 1860 to 1960. Background is provided in the opening chapters of Part I, which outline the origins of post-secondary education in both French and English Canada from 1635 to 1860, and in the parallel chapters of Parts II to V which describe the establishment of new and the growth of existing institutions during the period 1861-90, 1891-1920, 1921-40, and 1941-60. The remaining chapters of each of the book's main divisions present an examination of the curricula in arts and science, professional education, and graduate studies in 1860, 1890, 1920, 1940, and 1960, as well as the conditions pertaining to scholarship and research in these years. The concluding chapter identifies the characteristics which differentiate Canadian higher education from that of other countries. The book includes a full bibliography, an extensive index, and statistical appendices providing data on enrolment and degrees granted. A History of Higher Education in Canada 1663-1960 will be the definitive work in its field, valuable both for the wealth of information and the historical insights it contains.

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Published in 1997. People wishing to learn the major phases in the development of Canada's twelve postsecondary higher education systems over the 1945-95 period will find this an essential starting point.

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Excerpt from The Study of Political Science in Canadian Universities: A Paper Read Before the Royal Society of Canada and Trinity University, Toronto, in May, 1889 The College of France and the Independent School of Political Sciences in Paris have for a long time past presented a course of studies, which enable a diligent student to make himself thoroughly conversant with all those branches of history, and of Political Science which assist him to master the great problems of government and social life that are daily presenting themselves around him, and help to make him a more useful mem ber of the commonwealth. It is therefore eminently satisfactory to find that Canada is commencing to follow, in this particular, the example set her by the countries just mentioned. Our population and wealth are very insignificant as yet compared with the United States, or with those peoples from whom the two races that inhabit this Dominion derive their origin and institutions; but though it may not be possible for us for a while to Offer the large Opportunities which the rich institutions of these countries give to the student, still it is for us to make a beginning, and lay the foundation for the study of those branches Of knowledge which are admitted to be essentially within the province of all seats Of the higher education that wish to be en rapport with the times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.